On first glance, this sounds like a reasonable decision. Serbia was going to be held responsible for something, but it dodged the bullet of getting tagged with commiting genocide or having to pay reparations. Lots of countries probably violated their obligations to “prevent genocide” so Serbia has go to feel pretty good about the outcome. But I have to read it more carefully and right now, I must rush off and battle the snowy highways here in Long Island. So I will have to leave off any further commentary to a later time and/or our faithful commenters.

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I think the most interesting part of the Judgment is where the Court says that, in theory, a state can commit genocide and that the Genocide Convention covers that “state crime” (para. 166 I think it is; I wrote about it here (sorry for referring to my own weblog all the time)).

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